Chapter 59: Three Iron Rules

Doctor Mo couldn't be happy for many days before the power of the Yin Soul Curse manifested. He aged rapidly at the terrifying speed of aging one year a day.

He was very afraid and thought of all kinds of ways to control the strange phenomenon happening to him, but the results were minimal.

If it went on like this, he would naturally die soon, dying of exhaustion like a normal old man. But fortunately, at this time, Yu Yu Zitong's primordial spirit was having an even worse time.

It turned out that after Yu Yu Zitong entered Doctor Mo's body, after a long time, there was a phenomenon of being assimilated by the opponent's primordial spirit.

"Assimilation" is a passive possession behavior, a vicious phenomenon where an external primordial spirit that stays in someone else's body for a long time is unconsciously subtly influenced by the primordial spirit of the body's owner, influencing each other, but in the end, only one consciousness can remain.

Yu Yu Zitong saw this and, helpless, had no choice but to think of actively possessing the body.

The reason he was so reluctant wasn't because he had a kind heart, but because he was afraid of the three iron rules of possession in the cultivation world:

First, a cultivator cannot possess a mortal; otherwise, the possessed body will collapse on its own because it cannot withstand the act of possession.

Second, only a person with high magic power can possess a person with low magic power to succeed, without suffering from the opponent's backlash, and the greater the difference in magic power, the safer it is.

Third, a cultivator, regardless of the level of magic power, can only perform possession once in a lifetime. When performing it a second time, the primordial spirit will perish for no reason.

These three iron-blooded laws, which had been tested countless times without being broken, didn't know how many villains who tried to use this technique to stir up trouble and opportunists who tried to use this technique to escape disaster had been restricted. Heaven had warnings against such heaven-defying behavior and wouldn't let cultivators use this technique to make the world chaotic and out of control.

Therefore, if Doctor Mo were a cultivator, Yu Yu Zitong wouldn't be afraid, and he could fight to the death with the opponent to compete for this physical body. But Doctor Mo was just a mortal, without any magic power, completely unable to withstand the act of possession. I'm afraid that before he even finished half of it, the body being competed for would collapse completely.

And even if he found another person's body to hide in, he wouldn't be able to avoid the fate of being assimilated again, and he would face an even more embarrassing predicament, and it would be even worse. Because his magic power would decrease sharply with each entry and exit of his primordial spirit, and he would soon lose it all, unable to enter and exit freely, and would be trapped in someone else's body and eventually be assimilated.

You know, after becoming a primordial spirit, he had no body to meditate and replenish, and the magic power he carried would decrease with each use, and it would gradually diminish with the passage of time. He didn't know how long he could hold on.

So unless Yu Yu Zitong could find a cultivator with low magic power who could withstand possession, he would never let his primordial spirit leave his body again to take the risk.

Under the two huge pressures of the opponent's body being about to collapse due to the blood curse, making his primordial spirit have nowhere to hide, and him facing the danger of being assimilated by the opponent's primordial spirit, the greedy Yu Yu Zitong, after thinking it over, had no choice but to temporarily abandon the grudge between the two, helplessly contact Doctor Mo, and tell the opponent the whole story and the pros and cons.

Doctor Mo was initially angry, but soon realized the great opportunity in it. He didn't hesitate to make a three-point agreement with Yu Yu Zitong and reached an agreement, revealing his true colors as an ambitious hero.

First, Doctor Mo had to follow the method taught by Yu Yu Zitong to control his consciousness and try to avoid assimilating the opponent's primordial spirit. And Yu Yu Zitong would teach the opponent some secret techniques, allowing the opponent to slow down the speed of aging and briefly possess magic power.

Second, Doctor Mo had to find a boy with spiritual roots who could cultivate the Changchun Gong, teach him to cultivate this technique, and then when the time was ripe, Doctor Mo would rely on the temporarily acquired magic power to perform possession and regain his youth.

Doctor Mo had doubts about this and wanted to cultivate this technique himself, but naturally, he achieved nothing and was mocked by Yu Yu Zitong. Only then did he know that people without spiritual roots couldn't cultivate magic power, and he was the mediocre person without spiritual roots in the eyes of cultivators.

As for the last point, after the successful possession, Doctor Mo would have enough buffer time and would help the opponent find a suitable physical body and assist him in possession.

The above terms seemed to be more favorable to Doctor Mo, but there was no other way. Who told Yu Yu Zitong that the crisis of being assimilated was right in front of him? He was in an unfavorable position, so naturally, he had to suffer some losses. But whether he really suffered losses, only he himself knew.

In the above process, Yu Yu Zitong had suggested that Doctor Mo go to his family's secluded place to seek help, but the experienced Doctor Mo wouldn't give him any handle and refused without any room for discussion. This made Yu Yu Zitong hate him to the bone in the days that followed.

As for what happened later, there was nothing to say. Doctor Mo hadn't found a suitable candidate for several years, entered the Seven Mysteries Sect in despair, and then unexpectedly took Han Li as a disciple, taught him the Changchun Gong, etc. These were not much different from what Doctor Mo had said, and Han Li himself had experienced a part of it.

Han Li listened to these words and let out a long sigh of relief, most of the doubts in his heart being resolved.

However, seeing Yu Yu Zitong stop and not continue, he sank his face and said coldly:

"You seem to have forgotten to tell me the reason for Doctor Mo's death!"

"There's nothing to explain. It's just that Doctor Mo miscalculated the progress of your Changchun Gong, and his magic power was far inferior to yours, causing the possession to fail and instead being swallowed by you." Yu Yu Zitong's voice hesitated, but he still spoke the truth.

"So, the yellow light orb that entered my body first was Doctor Mo's primordial spirit, and the second green one was you." Han Li said lightly.

"This... this, I also thought at the time that you and Doctor Mo had perished together! In order not to waste this physical body, I wanted to borrow it." He was somewhat embarrassed.

"Hmph! I'm afraid it wasn't 'thought,' but you designed it deliberately."

"Yu Yu Zitong, when you passed the possession technique to Doctor Mo, I'm afraid you didn't have any good intentions and deliberately didn't mention that success or failure had to do with the depth of magic power."

"According to your original design, Doctor Mo used the self-mutilating Soul-Devouring Technique and my fourth-layer Changchun Gong. The magic power was about the same. Once the possession started, the two would kill each other and perish together. Then it would be cheap for you, the third party who benefited from the fisherman's profit, and you would take the opportunity to occupy my body and succeed in possession. I guessed right, didn't I, my Master Yu the cultivator!" Han Li said his judgment calmly in one breath.

Yu Yu Zitong was speechless for a long while. After a long time, he sighed and didn't refute, feeling somewhat dejected.

"Originally, I praised you just casually, but now it's sincere praise. You are really smart and have already surpassed the master, surpassing that fox Mo Mo Juren."

"You guessed it right. This was indeed designed by me. But I didn't expect your cultivation aptitude to be so good, actually practicing the Changchun Gong to the sixth layer in such a short time, only one layer lower than me. Not only did you easily swallow Doctor Mo's primordial spirit, but even my primordial spirit, a cultivator whose vital energy was greatly damaged, was no match for you, and instead lost quite a bit of vital energy."

However, his tone changed, and it suddenly became arrogant:

"Mo Mo Juren was just a mediocre person in the mortal world, actually wanting to be on equal footing with us cultivators and calling each other brothers. Is he worthy?"

"What's even more intolerable is that he used despicable means to destroy my magic body and wanted to step onto the path of immortality. It's truly a daydream!" Yu Yu Zitong gritted his teeth and said again, seemingly having hated Doctor Mo for a long time, and only now revealing it without any scruples.

"But you are different. You have natural spiritual roots and outstanding aptitude. It's truly a pity to be in the mortal world. If you are willing to help me find a suitable physical body and assist in possession, I am willing to be your guide, introduce you to the family elders, and take you as a disciple. What do you think?"

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